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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	john_n	viscount_n	38,711	5	12.0935	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07911	Zelauto. The fountaine of fame Erected in an orcharde of amorous aduentures. Containing a delicate disputation, gallantly discoursed betweene to noble gentlemen of Italye. Giuen for a freendly entertainment to Euphues, at his late ariuall into England. By A.M. seruaunt to the Right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford. Honos alit artes.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1580 (1580)	STC 18283; ESTC S120745	97,466	166

ZELAVTO THE FOVNtaine of Fame Erected in an Orcharde of Amorous Aduentures Containing A Delicate Disputation gallantly discoursed betweene two noble Gentlemen of Italye Giuen for a freendly entertainment to Euphues at his late ariuall into England By A. M. Seruaunt to the Right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford Honos alit Artes. ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlevvood 1580. VERO NIHIL VERIVS To the Right Honorable his singuler good Lord and Maister Edward de Vere Earle of Oxenford Viscount Bulbeck Lord Sandford and of Badelesmere and Lord high Chamberlaine of England Anthony Munday wisheth all happines in this Honorable estate and after death eternall life AFter that the Englishe Prince Right Honorable and my verie good Lord had taken view of the seemelye Portrature of Gridonia her tender Infant lying by her and leading two Lions in her hand he presently left the Court and tooke himselfe to trauayle When the princely Primaleō heard pronoūced before his famous father the Emperour of Constantinople the sorrowfull Letters sent by the Lady of the Lake how his best belooued brother was loste in the vnfortunate Forest of England he abandoned all his Courtly delights and neuer ceassed wandring till he became prisoner in the same place So my simple selfe Right Honourable hauing sufficiently seene the rare vertues of your noble minde the heroycall quallities of your prudent person thought though abilitie were inferiour to gratifie with some gift yet good will was ample to bestowe with the best When all the braue Gallants and woorthy Gentlemen in Roome presented vnto the Emperour Iewels and gifts of great value and estimation a poore Cittizen amongst thē all brought a handfull of Flowers and offered them to the Emperour the which he receiued gratiously and with great affection and gaue him a great reward Why quoth one of the Gentlemen how durst thou presume to giue so poore a present to so puissant a person Why quoth the Citizen how durst they be so bolde to giue such great gifts Quoth the Gentleman they are of great credit and beside their gifts woorthy the receiuing And I am poore quoth the Cittizen and therefore I giue such a meane gift yet hath it beene gratefully accepted And although they discend of such noble Linages yet doo they owe dutifull alleageaunce vnto the Emperour and as poore as I am I beare him as true a heart as the best Euen so my poore gift hath beene as faithfully deliuered as the richest Iewell that was by them presented And loe Right Honourable among such expert heads such pregnaunt inuentions and such commendable writers as preferre to your seemely selfe woorkes woorthy of eternall memory A simple Soule more imboldened on your clemencie then any action whatsoeuer he is able to make manifest presumeth to present you with such vnpullished practises as his simple skill is able to comprehend Yet thus much I am to assure your Honour that among all them which owe you dutifull seruice and among all the braue Bookes which haue beene bestowed these my little labours containe so much faithfull zeale to your welfare as others whatsoeuer I speake without any excepcion But least that your Honour should deeme I forge my tale on flatterie and that I vtter with my mouth my hart thinketh not I wish for the tryall of my trustinesse what reasonable affayres your Honour can best deuise so shall your minde be deliuered from doubt and my selfe rid of any such reproche But as the puissantest Prince is not voyde of enemies the gallantest Champion free from foes and the moste honest liuer without some backbiters euen so the brauest Bookes hath many malicious iudgements and the wisest writers not without rashe reports If then Right Honourable the moste famous are foūd fault withall the cuningest controlled the promptest wits reproched by spitefull speeches how dare so rude a writer as I seeme to set foorth so meane a matter so weake a woorke and so skillesse a stile When the learned are deluded I must needes be mocked and when the skilfullest are scorned I must needes be derided But yet I remember the wise will not reprehend rashly the learned condemne so lightly nor the courteous misconster the good intent of the writer But onely sutch as Aesops Dog that brags but dares not bite hid in a hole and dare not shewe their heads against all such the countenaunce of your Honour is sufficient to contend which makes me not feare the force of their enuie The Chirurgion more douteth the hidden Fistule then the wide wound the woorthiest warriour more feareth the secret assault thē the boldest battaile A little hooke taketh a great Fish a little winde falleth downe big fruit a smal spark kindleth to a great fire a little stone may make a tall mā stūble a small wound kill a puissant person Euen so the hidden enemy may sooner harme a mā then whē he trieth his quarrell face to face and the least report of a slaūdrous toūg beeing lightly beleeued may discredit him to his vtter vndooing But for my part I feare not let thē prate at their pleasure talke till their toūgs ake your Honour to please is the cheefe of my choise your good will to gaine is my wished reward which shal be more welcome then Cressus aboundaunce and more hartily accepted then any worldly wealth The last part of this woorke remaineth vnfinished the which for breuity of time and speedines in the Imprinting I was constrained to permit till more limitted leysure Desiring your Honour to accept this in meane time as a signe and token of my dutifull goodwill Not long it will be before the rest be finished and the renowned Palmerin of England with all speede shall be sent you Thus praying for your prosperitie and the increase of your Honourable dignitie I commend your woorthye state to the heauenly eternitie Your Honours moste dutifull seruaunt at all assayes Antony Munday ¶ To the well disposed Reader I May be deemed courteous Reader more wanton then wise and more curious then circumspect in naming my booke by such a vaine glorious title for some will suppose heere are rare exploytes of martial mindes to be seen which whē they haue prooued they finde it to faint Othersome will desire for Venus daintie dalliances but Iuno dealeth so iustly in this cause that their also they misse their marke Then how will some say can Fame be so furnished and bothe of these absent the matter say I shall make manifest what I haue attempted and then if I be founde faultie I will stand to your gentle iudgementes That man is very wise that neuer offendeth in folly that man is very valiant that neuer meetes with his match and that man is very circumspect that neuer talketh awry the righteous man offendeth seuē times a day then needes must the negligent be found very faulty It is a good horse that neuer stumbleth and he a seuere seruaūt that neuer displeaseth his maister then beare with my